Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission, led the caroling . . . Christmas at the White House was quiet, with only one guest for dinner, Attorney General Sargent...
Habits: Smokes not; drinks not. Does not gamble. Eats a thoroughgoing breakfast. Prefers light luncheon and dinner when permitted. Avoids rich dishes. Likes sweets...
...Jesus ... a killjoy? He was the most popular dinner guest in Jerusalem...
...defeated in the voting, Democrat Garner made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being," said he, "the Chair would say he would regard that question as being more Democratic than parliamentary...
...uncle had married a young woman who was keeping all his wealth. Willi tried seeing her; she was, he discovered, a woman he had once paid for spending a night with him. Nonetheless, he asked her for the sum he needed so badly; she came to his rooms for dinner without saying whether she would leave the money or not. In the morning, she gave the Lieutenant a thousand gulden. She said: ". . . 'You gave me only ten. Do you still remember? . . . Ten gulden- was plenty. In fact, too much.' Her eyes held his. 'To speak accurately...